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Research and Databases

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Research:
* Biometric Systems Laboratory (Italy)
* Chip Architecture for Smart Cards and secure portable Devices (with biometrics)
* European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research (COST)
* MIT Media Lab's Vision and Modeling Group
* NIST's Visual Image Processing Group (fingerprint, face, etc.)

DNA:
Cloning and Ethics:
* Animals As Inventions: Biotechnology and Intellectual Property Rights
* Biotechnology & Science
* Cloning Humans
* Cloning Sheep (Dolly), Byte This
* Cloning Rhesus Monkeys, CNN
* First Adult Mammal Cloned, Yahoo's large index
* Nature Web Special: Cloned Sheep, 27 February 1997
Nature, the "international weekly journal of science," has created a web page to accompany the ground-breaking letter it published in the February 27, 1997 issue: "Viable offspring derived from fetal and adult mammalian cells," by I. Wilmut, et al. The letter is available, as well as a Nature Opinion piece, and short articles of commentary by Axel Kahn of the INSERM Laboratory of Research on Genetics and Molecular Pathology at the Cochin Institute of Molecular Genetics, Paris, and Colin Stewart of the NCI-Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center, Frederick, Maryland. (Note that the site is free, but registration is required.)
* Shaping Genes: Ethics, Law and Science of Using New Genetic Technology in Medicine and Agriculture
* Unraveling the Code of Life
* DNA Fingerprinting in Human Health and Society
* Yahoo's Human Genetics

Face:
* The Face Recognition Home Page
* Facial Analysis
* Facial Animation
* Microsoft Research Vision Technology Group

Fingerprints:
* "Automated Systems for Fingerprint Authentication Using Pores and Ridge Structure," Proceedings of SPIE, Automatic Systems for the Identification and Inspection of Humans (SPIE Vol 2277), San Diego, 1994, p. 210-223. (802 kB PostScript)
* Cal Tech
* Carleton U/DEW Engineering
* The FBI Fingerprint Image Compression Standard
* An Introduction to Wavelets: FBI Fingerprint Compression
* FBI Fingerprint Compression Standard WSQ Software for UNIX Sun under SunOS 4.1.1 (uncertified)
* FBI Fingerprint Compression Standard WSQ Software for Windows 3.1 (uncertified)
* Free Software to Measure the Spatial Frequency Response (MTF) of Fingerprint Scanners
* The Human Identification System Project
* ImEdge Technology

Handwriting:
* Document Understanding and Character Recognition (DIMUND)
* Handwriting Recognition Group
* Handschriften-Erkennungs-SYstem für Normalstifte (HESY) Signature Testing Device (works with normal pens)
* International Graphonomics Society
* OSCAR
* Script & Pattern Recognition Research Group
* The UNIPEN Project

Voice:
* CAVE - The European Caller Verification Project
* NIST Speaker Detection Evaluation
* Speech Research (links at UCSC)

Various:
* Multimodal Verification for Teleservices and Security Applications (M2VTS) (alternate)


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Databases:
* YOHO (voice)
* European Language Resources Association's (ELRA) Speech Databases
* FacE Recognition Technology (FERET) (facial)
* FBI's Operational Capability Demonstration (OCD) data set (fingerprints)
* Linguistic Data Consortium (voice)
* Manchester Faces Image Database
* M2VTS Multimodal Face and Voice Database
* NIST Standard Reference Data
* NIST's fingerprint CD-ROM
* Oregon Graduate Institute (voice)
*See the Research sites above for additional databases.

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